The Best Ham Salad

I had never made my own ham salad at home until recently. I just thought it would require too much work. I don’t own a meat grinder so I figured it would just take up too much time and effort in chopping up the meat myself. Then, one of my co-workers suggested that I use a food processor. She said that back in the day, you could purchase cooked, ground ham. But it has gotten harder and harder to find over the years. So she started mincing her own cooked ham just to make ham salad.

After the holidays, many of us end up with more leftover meat than we know what to do with! So I set about making my own version of a ham salad that combines all of my favorite flavors. I used a small boneless cooked ham. The taste was so delicious. Now I can easily make it at home with those holiday leftovers!

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pounds boneless ham leftover or purchased thick slab, trimmed of fat and diced*
• 1 hard-boiled egg
• 1 stalk celery roughly chopped
• 2 teaspoons finely chopped onion
• 2 teaspoons sweet pickle relish
• 3/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon prepared mustard
• assorted crackers and/or soft rolls

Instructions

• Put the ham, egg, celery and onion into a blender or food processor (season with a bit of black pepper)
• Pulse (short, quick pulses) 20-25 times to mince.
• Combine remaining ingredients into a separate bowl (sweet pickle relish, mayonnaise and mustard)
• Then stir in minced ham mixture.
• Cover and chill. I chilled it for several hours, it definitely gets better as it chills for a while.
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